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Planful

Overview

What is Planful?

Planful is a cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM) suite. It includes financial applications for modeling, planning, consolidation, reporting and analytics.

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Recent Reviews

Planful is NOT painful

10 out of 10
December 13, 2023
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Popular Features

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  • Financial budgeting (106)
    8.2
    82%
  • Management Reporting (100)
    8.0
    80%
  • Forecasting (99)
    8.0
    80%
  • Management reporting (103)
    8.0
    80%

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Pricing

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What is Planful?

Planful is a cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM) suite. It includes financial applications for modeling, planning, consolidation, reporting and analytics.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

6.7
Avg 8.0

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

7.3
Avg 8.3

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

6.7
Avg 8.2

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

6.3
Avg 7.6

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.5
Avg 8.7

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.4
Avg 8.0

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long term planning

8
Avg 8.3

Consolidation and Close

Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.

6.7
Avg 8.0

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Financial statements and regulatory filings

7.3
Avg 8.2

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

6.1
Avg 8.0

Integration

Ability to integrate with external applications.

6.8
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

What is Planful?

Planful offers end-to-end financial close, consolidation, and financial planning & analysis (FP&A) cloud software. The Planful platform is used by the Office of the CFO around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and visual analytics. The vendor states Planful's more than 1,000 customers, including Boston Red Sox, Del Monte, TGI Friday’s, and 23andMe, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy across the end-to-end FP&A process. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com.

STRUCTURED PLANNING Structured Planning with Planful automates labor-intensive planning activities in a cloud-based platform – to give the finance team control, consistency, and confidence in corporate financial plans, budgets, and forecasts.

DYNAMIC PLANNING Dynamic Planning with Planful enables flexible, high-frequency, data-driven planning, modeling, and decision-making so users in every corner of the organization can analyze, plan, and make confident decisions at the speed of business.

FINANCIAL CLOSE & CONSOLIDATION Financial Close & Consolidation with Planful empowers finance to accelerate month-end close and reporting cycles by automating data aggregation, journal entries, intercompany eliminations, minority interest, entity consolidation, currency conversion, and financial reporting.

FINANCIAL REPORTING Reporting with Planful provides a library of reporting formats and delivery options, enabling finance and business users to produce a wide range of interactive financial and management reports leveraging one source of truth.

WORKFORCE PLANNING Planful helps users to tackle workforce planning using accurate and current data from across the business. By simplifying and automating time-consuming tasks and building alignment across departments, users have more time to create a stronger people strategy.

PLANFUL FOR MARKETING Planful’s marketing solution, formerly known as Plannuh, is used to measure marketing at every level of the plan for full visibility and team efficiency. To protect the marketing budget, Planful for Marketing helps marketers build, measure, execute and improve with clarity.

Planful Features

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting Features

  • Supported: Long-term financial planning
  • Supported: Financial budgeting
  • Supported: Forecasting
  • Supported: Scenario modeling
  • Supported: Management reporting

Consolidation and Close Features

  • Supported: Financial data consolidation
  • Supported: Journal entries and reports
  • Supported: Multi-currency management
  • Supported: Intercompany Eliminations
  • Supported: Minority Ownership
  • Supported: Local and consolidated reporting
  • Supported: Detailed Audit Trails

Financial Reporting and Compliance Features

  • Supported: Financial Statement Reporting
  • Supported: Management Reporting
  • Supported: Excel-based Reporting
  • Supported: Automated board and financial reporting

Analytics and Reporting Features

  • Supported: Personalized dashboards
  • Supported: Color-coded scorecards
  • Supported: KPIs
  • Supported: Cost and profitability analysis
  • Supported: Key Performance Indicator setting

Integration Features

  • Supported: Flat file integration
  • Supported: Excel data integration
  • Supported: Direct links to 3rd-party data sources

BI Standard Reporting Features

  • Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
  • Supported: Customizable dashboards
  • Supported: Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting Features

  • Supported: Drill-down analysis
  • Supported: Formatting capabilities
  • Supported: Predictive modeling
  • Supported: Report sharing and collaboration

Report Output and Scheduling Features

  • Supported: Publish to Web
  • Supported: Publish to PDF
  • Supported: Report Versioning
  • Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

  • Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
  • Supported: Predictive Analytics

Access Control and Security Features

  • Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
  • Supported: Role-Based Security Model
  • Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
  • Supported: Report-Level Access Control
  • Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)

Mobile Capabilities Features

  • Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
  • Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Planful Screenshots

Screenshot of Planful Planform DashboardScreenshot of Planful for FinanceScreenshot of Planful for MarketingScreenshot of ReportsScreenshot of Capacity Planning TemplateScreenshot of Integrations

Planful Videos

Planful Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesWe have customers in 90 countries
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Planful is a cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM) suite. It includes financial applications for modeling, planning, consolidation, reporting and analytics.

Workday Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, and Oracle Hyperion are common alternatives for Planful.

Reviewers rate Single Sign-On (SSO) highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Planful are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Planful Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)10%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)25%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)65%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Finance team may have a different response, but from a workforce planning perspective Planful is not a huge value-add. There are other compensation platforms that offer built-in benchmarking, tracking of total comp (inclusive of equity and benefits), and similar levels of internal confidentiality, while also allowing employees to visualize their own financial outlook in the company.
February 19, 2024

Planful's no slouch

Cory Abrahamson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Previously to using Planful, we were not doing a subsidiary level forecast on a monthly basis. Planful has allowed us to add this level of detail to our forecast process so we can get a much more accurate view of how we are performing on a company-by-company basis.

Having the unified suite of tools all in one platform has been a huge win for us.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We still operate within a semi-hybrid use case of zero-based budgeting within excel models, but we house all of our projections within Planful at the end of all processes. We also use BI to dive into sub-GL information, and have a roundabout way of loading that detailed information to Planful. Ultimately, using Planful saves us a lot of time, and it makes it very easy to reference historical information.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Using Planful to consolidate data from multiple companies and have this data stored in one place allows us to create corporate reporting efficiently. Using spotlight XL for reporting has given us the ability to respond quickly to changes in data, so reporting is accurate and up to date.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The integration of payroll and fully-fledged P&L data into one location has allowed me to run more detailed scenario analyses and provide more relevant, actionable data to the CFO and others within the organization. One noticeable area is in COGS and margin analysis and planning, where the ability to run scenarios and look at detailed costs has been very beneficial.
December 13, 2023

Planful is NOT painful

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Unfortunately, the tool doesn't make it up to our CFO office, as we are just an overhead department using it to track our operational expenses. But I will add that our department has been UNDER budget every year since using Planful, and being an overhead department, it is essential that we are under budget and not at risk of reducing revenue by creating additional overhead.
Jennie Rush | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I support all 25 Money Managers that we have using Planful. Because the tool is so easy to use, it allows me to provide data to Money Managers in minutes. They can access their financials in real time at the click of a button. It's incredibly easy to use and makes life easier for our Technology Dept.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We decided not to bring our accounting suite into Planful as the processes were mostly already being done in Netsuite and we wanted to keep our ERP system as our single source of truth of GL data and not muddy it. This is probably best practice most companies that already have established ERP systems and processes. The reporting our the ERP system data though was a great improvement over what can be done in excel or ERP, and the extra data brought in (especially with drill through as an option) have helped keep some questions down and let users self service.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
While we do not use all the tools, the ability to have budget /actuals / forecast in one platform increases productivity and allows for more analysis rather than time spent on data gathering. Similar to most systems, the more standardized a company's reports can be designed, the more effiecient it will be for all those involved.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Planful touches all aspect of finance integration. Our CFO is amazed at how easy it is for him to have all his reports consolidated in one cloud bucket. The Key Performance Indicators give a real time view of all segments of budgeting, Implementation, and reporting. Planful provides multiple streams of data integration.
Robert Picard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've benefitted by being able to take care of tasks, and other ad hoc assignments from my supervisors, by interacting and learning from the platform. If there's one thing I could say about this tool to speak to it's effectiveness, it is how easy it is to catch on to the different ways to use it! :)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Planful has enabled multiple people to pull their own information, enabling everyone from the CFO down to Analysts to pull their own data, and get access to what they need, when they need it. This has really empowered everyone in the organization to self serve. The biggest downfall, as an administrator, is that people keep asking for more data to be put in outside of direct Finance data!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have benefitted because I have gained time back rather than having to use multiple tools at a time and make things confusing. It's nice to be able to flip back and forth and see my budget work change in the reports in real time without having to wait. It makes things quick and easy when deadlines come around.
December 07, 2022

Planful Review 2022

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Planful is easy to use. Also, it has the control functionalities allow us to do something but not to do something if we override a formula cell that we shouldn't be. Hence, it improves the accuracy of the reporting. If the data are verified and accurate at the department level, the consolidation process normally runs very smoothly at the corporate level.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I still use multiple platforms for information integration exercises, but Planful is our primary tool for Financial Reporting, consolidation, and planning. It's a time save that all 3 are in the same place.
November 04, 2022

A great FP&A tool

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The consolidation of the financial planning, operational planning, consolidation, reporting, etc to one singular platform streamlines the entire finance and accounting departments. One benefit of the consolidation is using planful as a singular data source. this eliminates the painful process of consolidating data from multiple different sources to generate one financial report, with all the data housed in Planful it is a one stop shop for all financial data for the company.
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